Eclipse is an IDE with a lot of support from the community, but it’s not the only option. NetBeans is another option to develop in Java. NetBeans is a great IDE too. We’ll go over the installation of NetBeans in this post.

We’ve seen that a text editor is enough to start writing Java code. But there are tools that can facilitate many of the tasks at the time of writing code and debugging our applications. Eclipse is one of those tools.

Now that you have read some about what Java is and that you have a better idea of the different types of applications you can develop with Java, it’s time to learn about Java’s Software Development Kit (SDK), also known as the Java Development Kit (JDK). We’ll talk about the JDK in this post.